'No One is Safe': How The Heatwave Has Battered the Wealthy World

Some of Europe's richest countries lay in disarray this weekend, as
raging rivers burst through their banks in Germany and Belgium,
submerging towns, slamming parked cars against trees and leaving
Europeans shellshocked at the intensity of the destruction.

Only days before in the Northwestern United States, a region famed for
its cool, foggy weather, hundreds had died of heat. In Canada,
wildfire had burned a village off the map. Moscow reeled from record temperatures. And this weekend the northern Rocky Mountains were
bracing for yet another heat wave, as wildfires spread across 12
states in the American West.

The extreme weather disasters across Europe and North America have
driven home two essential facts of science and history: The world as a
whole is neither prepared to slow down climate change, nor live with
it. The week's events have now ravaged some of the world's wealthiest
nations, whose affluence has been enabled by more than a century of
burning coal, oil and gas -- activities that pumped the greenhouse
gases into the atmosphere that are warming the world.

<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/climate/heatwave-weather-hot.html>

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